Catched from the NYtimes

Beyond stuffy old money institutions and noisy sports bars, hidden gems abound.

Mike Flynn, a former intern who rose to the top of the agency, will be under a microscope, but far from the spotlight.

A tour guide goes one step beyond, a macaw on the Q and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

The mayor announced Tricia Shimamura as the city’s new parks commissioner amid broad calls for more park funding.

The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.

Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.

The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.

The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.

The Council speaker, Julie Menin, introduced bills that would establish a buffer zone at houses of worship to keep protesters at some distance from congregants.

Both sides in the labor dispute appear poised for a protracted battle, and only one of three hospitals was negotiating with the strikers.